“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.” NeedsHumansSelfEarthFormValuesWaterDecisionCommonPlansAirElementsApproachResourcesBasesCleanDecision MakingHuman SocietyHolisticSustenanceInventoryClean AirHolistic Approach Author:Jacque Fresco
“Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.” ValuesCultureBehaviorCustomsLearned BehaviorBehavior Patterns Author:Jacque Fresco
“War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.” HumansLittlesWarSufferingValuesCulturePovertyMiseryHungerCorruptionSignificantMonetaryHuman SufferingMonetary SystemSignificant ChangeRedesign Author:Jacque Fresco
“We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.” WorldWayPoliticalValuesLanguageSocialCitiesPolicyHealthWasteResourcesChaosAcquireGoodsModernityChaoticSocial SystemsDetrimentalOutdatedGoods And ServicesFuturistObsolescence Author:Jacque Fresco
“Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody” WayDifferentWarUseSchoolValuesCultureHouseHurtTeachNiceShareKillingCommunicateRelateArchitectEngineersLots Of MoneyPhysicistDifferent CulturesNice HouseDifferent ValuesGeneralists Author:Jacque Fresco
“Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.” PeopleWayLittlesLongMadeDifferentWarValuesCoursesReadingFeltSacrificeEvolutionLong TimeConceptsAngrySuperiorsUncomfortableQuestioningFloodFlexibleGod Of WarSuperior IntelligenceDifferent Gods Author:Jacque Fresco
“In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification. These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.” PeopleIfsMenSelfHelpingLightValuesIndividualProcessWaterCenturyEvery ManEnginesVehicleElectricPrimitiveIncentivesReservoirsPurificationValue SystemsElectric LightSingle People Author:Jacque Fresco
“I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.” PeopleIfsDifferentReasonValuesHateLanguageWhiteHalfMonthsCitizensOrganizationIf I CouldInterpretationCustomsCouncilApplauseForeignersMiamiKu Klux KlanDifferent LanguagesDifferent InterpretationsDifferent Values Author:Jacque Fresco
“Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices.” PeopleMeanI CanFactsValuesChoicesCultureIndividualParentAcceptingOur ChoicesFree ChoiceIndividual Choice Author:Jacque Fresco
“There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're brought up in an island where people have pointed heads, that would be 'beautiful' in your terms. All these mythological structures is what gets us into trouble; the artificiality of our values that get us into trouble.” PeopleIfsWould BeBeautifulValuesCultureGirlTermTroubleStructureIslandsFrameworkBeautiful GirlArtificiality Author:Jacque Fresco
“Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.” IfsHumansLawValuesHateCultureNatureBornNaturalLearningEnvironmentSubjectsEffectsBehaviorHatredPrejudiceEnvironmentalGreedPatternsRepeatsBigotryPhenomenonCustomsHuman BehaviorAlteredSimilarityNatural PhenomenaLearned BehaviorBehavior Patterns Author:Jacque Fresco
“Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.” KnowsWantNeedsMeanPersonsValuesWaterBornAirBirthReflectionSignificantPhysiologicalValue SystemsPersonal ValuesSignificant Things Author:Jacque Fresco
“If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.” IfsBelieveLongRunningEarthValuesHurtSpeciesRelatedRealisticLong Runs Author:Jacque Fresco
“You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanReasonValuesLosesApproachLogicAppealsReason And Logic Author:Jacque Fresco
“All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.” KnowsWorldYearsValuesTelevisionHigherPoliticianAll ThingsDefinitionsThings ChangeAutomobileLightersOld Values Author:Jacque Fresco
“It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.” IfsWorldInspirationalDifferentValuesWishChanging The WorldValue SystemsDifferent Values Author:Jacque Fresco
